Title: "Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi (completed)" [The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido] Author: Hiroshige Place: Japan Publisher: Date: c.1920s? Description: With 55 color plates after color woodblocks, plus a portrait of Hiroshige. 30.2x22 cm (12x8¾"), accordion-style album, color pictorial cloth covers, chitsu with bone clasps. A fairly early 20th century edition of Hiroshige's renowned "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō," depicting the road from the shōgun's capital, Edo, to the imperial one, Kyōto, the main travel and transport artery of old Japan. Hiroshige created the series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832. It has been republished in various forms in the nearly 200 years since its inception. Lot Amendments Condition: Chitsu worn, soiled, splitting at seams; some soiling to covers, leaves starting to split at some folds but no loss of strength; very good. Item number: 295420a
Title: "Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi (completed)" [The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido] Author: Hiroshige Place: Japan Publisher: Date: c.1920s? Description: With 55 color plates after color woodblocks, plus a portrait of Hiroshige. 30.2x22 cm (12x8¾"), accordion-style album, color pictorial cloth covers, chitsu with bone clasps. A fairly early 20th century edition of Hiroshige's renowned "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō," depicting the road from the shōgun's capital, Edo, to the imperial one, Kyōto, the main travel and transport artery of old Japan. Hiroshige created the series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832. It has been republished in various forms in the nearly 200 years since its inception. Lot Amendments Condition: Chitsu worn, soiled, splitting at seams; some soiling to covers, leaves starting to split at some folds but no loss of strength; very good. Item number: 295420a
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